It's tough. It reminds you how fragile a season and a team can be.

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

We need to find out how we can become the team we were for so long. Looking at it from this perspective, it's not like we're going in at 6 a.m. and playing football or doing anything crazy.

Frankly, it was tough to tell which team was in their pre-season and which one wasn't.

It was a tough pill to swallow. AIC was a team we had handled twice during the season (by 34 and 26 points), and for them to take that game from us on our home floor was tough.

We're a tough team. We're not afraid of anybody. We're not worried about how young or inexperienced we are. We're trying to do things in practice and trying to listen to Coach Williams. And we feel like if we do those things, if we come out and just leave it on the floor, we can compete with anybody.